Today is a picture perfect day outside! Yesterday was great also. I am really enjoying today. I managed to get all my lawn work done yesterday, so the house has that crisp manicured look outside, which I love! My 360+ impatient plants have filled in beautifully, mixing in with my perennials. I keep on stepping back and admiring them, I adore my flowers.
I went out shopping with my mom for a few hours this morning. We stopped at Kmart this morning, and they had hanging baskets on clearance for $4.99. I picked up 8 of them, so I have them all around my courtyard, on planters, and it looks great. We also stopped at Namco, where I picked up a new heavy duty pool vacume, so I have been outside, trying to see the bottom of it again. I want it warm and clear for next weekend, and I actually have a shot at it.... I was thinking that life is really not half bad, if my biggest problem is vacuming the pool! :)
I hope everyone is having a great weekend! I'm cooking a few filet's out on the grill, and then I may take a nap out in the sun.
It's an absolutely gorgeous day here too - sunny and warm and dry. I just got home from visiting my mother and vegie shopping for dinner - we're having Black Angus steaks, yams and sliced tomatoes tonight, and my dad will be here too. I try to get him over at least every Sunday and away from his darn Arby's junk food.
Oh, and I picked up a bottle of Dove shampoo and conditioner for a change. Anybody tried it? It's a switch from the usual Pantene Pro V.
Sophia, I envy your flowers. My Chloe trampled hundreds of dollars of perenniels in her hunt for that demon spawn chippie and I haven't the heart to replace them. Just as my foxglove threw up the gorgeous spikes (last year) she bit off all those blossoms too. And the hostas, those pretty yellow evening primrose, and the columbine, all but 3 lillies, my poppies, the trillium patch, and 2 hydrangeas...all gone. I'm left with hanging baskets, 2 huge dogwoods and one boxwood hedge (partly trampled but most survived). Oh, and last summer she killed 4 rose bushes I had planted 5 years earlier. Thank goodness my peonies are at the side of the house she can't get into, but they're all finished anyway.
The sacrafices we make for our children, eh?
Which reminds me, I'd better get out there and hose all the damn bird poop off our table. There's a nest of chickadees in the soffit on the west side of my house, and the perfect place for them to dump is all over either my car or the table, usually both. Urban wildlife is highly overrated.
Our weather was so-so today started of chilly and rainy, but that's OK we've had too much heat this year.
I love my flowers and garden too, some years they do better.
Did you plant 360 ? I couldnt' handle that many. I love the ones that come up by themselves. We've been her just about 4 years and it's so great that we finally have stuff in the yard. The back yard looks Done but the front needs bushes, not sure if I'm going with roses, I love anything RED, it just pops against the green grass!
I definitely have to agree Tess, New England has had a great weekend to kick off summer. Your house sounds beautiful. I need to take a little trip to come see it. I have a hard time getting up the energy to do something like that for a house that we will likely leave in a year or so. But I will plant a few bulbs now that I know what was already planted....I am paranoid though because we have so many damn squirrels I am afraid they will eat them...
oh and Kae, I really like Dove shampoo, it is a nice difference from Pantene..
KaeEll, if it is an consolation, I have a path of missing impatients, where Tess walks right through them, I don't know why I even bother to put plants in that little area, it's not like she has not used the same path for the last six years. My front yard has huge oak trees on each side of the driveway. So basically the front of the house is in shade by 1:00 in the afternoon, which makes it a great spot for the impatients. When I plant them, I put two into a hole, it only took me about four hours to plant them all. I have it down to a science, with this being my 18th summer in the house. After many years, I know what works, and what doesn't.
Funny enough the impatients are all the same color, white. I know that sounds boring, but it really works the best. They are set against the perenials, which have color. I also have a scalloped white picket fence along the front walkway. It's purely decorative, but very pretty. The house is gray, with white trim, and the doors and shutters are dark blue, so the white flowers just set in there nicely. I also have an old milk container on the front steps, which I take the top off of, and put a basket into. It has cascading white flowers with a salmon colored geranium in it. I will take a picture of it one of these days, since I finally have a digital camera that does not go into super user mode (which I can't figure out), when the wind blows, or I turn.
I like the dove shampoo also. Two that I have found to be great to help against the frizzies are sun silk (the green bottle), and my newest, which I love is L'Oreal Vive pro, nutri gloss. It is incredible on my color treated (bleached blonde!) hair. I straighten my hair every time I wash it. I have very curly hair, which I currently hate, so I straighten it. With the sunsilk and L'Oreal, I don't get frizzie, even in the rain or humidity, which is huge! Prior to these shampoos, I would like Bette Midler in the movie Hocus Pocus, in the rain or humidity.
Happy Monday! I'm off to get ready for another fun week in the office!
